ENG 221 Assignment Schedule

Jan. 30             Course introduction, intro to Blackboard. 

                        HW: Hopkins, 1-33 and Hamlet, Intro through Act II, scene 1 (pgs. 3-60)

Feb. 6              Discuss critical histories, beginning of Hamlet

                        HW: Complete Hamlet (pgs. 60-156)

Feb. 13            Discuss play (including comparison of film clips of performances)

                        HW: Hopkins, 36-61 and Hamlet, critical history & psychoanalytic theory

(pgs.181-205 and 241-282)

Feb. 20            Discuss psychoanalytic theory and Hamlet

                        Read 1 Henry IV, preface and play

(pgs. ix-xiv and 1-94)

Feb. 27            Discuss 1 Henry IV and psychoanalytic theory (multiple fathers)

                        HW: Hopkins, 63-86 and 1 Henry IV essays by Holderness (pgs. 267-274)

and Greenblatt (pgs. 284-312); and Hamlet, New Historicist essays

(pgs.  368-400)

March 5           Discuss New Historicism and 1 Henry IV and Hamlet

                        HW: Hopkins, 89-109 and King Lear Intro and Acts I and II (pgs. xiv-xxi

and 1-61).  Complete take-home mid-term and upload to Blackboard

Discussion Board by 6:30 p.m. on March 12.

 March 12        Virtual Class/Take-Home Mid-term

                        HW: Hopkins, 111-131; Hamlet 154-156 and complete King Lear

(pgs. 61-138)

March 16-23   SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS MEETINGS

March 26         Discuss Cultural Materialism and King Lear; competing texts of Hamlet

and King Lear, editorial choices

HW: COMPLETE ESSAY#1.  Read The Tempest (3-87 and 110-115)

April 2              ESSAY #1 DUE

                        Discuss The Tempest and New Historicism, Psychoanalytic Theory

                        HW: Hopkins, 134-160; Hamlet, Feminist Criticism (pgs. 208-238); and

1 Henry IV, “Masculine Identities” (pgs. 383-387) and “Gender and

Nation” (409-433)

April 9              Discuss all four plays in light of feminist criticism

                        HW: Hopkins, 162-186 and The Tempest (205-229, 256-268, & 286-322)

April 16            Discuss The Tempest and postcolonial theory

                        HW: Hopkins, 188-209; screen Henry V (at RU or rent on own)

April 23            Discuss performance criticism, Henry V (view clips of Branagh, Olivier)

                        HW: Screen My Own Private Idaho (at RU or rent on own);

read 1 Henry IV Gus Van Sant (pgs. 387-392) and Susan Wiseman

(pgs. 392-409); COMPLETE ESSAY #2

April 30            ESSAY #2 DUE

                        Discuss film adaptation of 1 Henry IV

                        HW: Complete full draft of final essay

May 7              In-class workshop with final essays; roundtable discussion of additional

essays that you have read to incorporate into your paper; come prepared to

report briefly on at least one of your sources (thesis, critical perspective of article, how you can tell what the critical perspective is)

HW: Complete final essay                 

May 14            Final essay due by 6:30 p.m.